Don't You Know Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAAAB CBCBBBBB ABABDDDB DBDBAAAB ABABDDDB DBDBEEEB| H'it's h'easy to be 'appy | A |
| Don't you know | B |
| There's no sense in being snappy | A |
| Don't you know | B |
| Wot's the use h'of being grumpy | A |
| H'or a bally rotter mumpy | A |
| Folks don't like a fellow dumpy | A |
| Don't you know | B |
| - | |
| H'every one h'as fits h'of sadness | C |
| Don't you know | B |
| No ones life h'is wholly gladness | C |
| Don't you know | B |
| H'if todye you taste h'of sorrow | B |
| H'or a shilling 'ave to borrow | B |
| Frowning won't 'elp things tomorrow | B |
| Don't you know | B |
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| O a gloomy cus h'is silly | A |
| Don't you know | B |
| 'E's a downright balmy Billy | A |
| Don't you know | B |
| H'instead of h'alwyes moping | D |
| With 'is lips h'in downward sloping | D |
| 'E should smile h'and keep on 'oping | D |
| Don't you know | B |
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| O my word H'if I were willing | D |
| Don't you know | B |
| H'every time h'I'd lack a shilling | D |
| Don't you know | B |
| H'in me wye so very 'umble | A |
| H'I could start a dismal mumble | A |
| But h'I larf h'I never grumble | A |
| Don't you know | B |
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| Tyke the time the guv'or sacked me | A |
| Don't you know | B |
| good h'old chap 'E'd alwyes backed me | A |
| Don't you know | B |
| 'E got 'ot and sent me flying | D |
| Cut me h'off there's no use lying | D |
| But h'I larffed h'instead of crying | D |
| Don't you know | B |
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| H'and h'I'm 'ere on h'earth still grinning | D |
| Don't you know | B |
| Back once more h'at the beginning | D |
| Don't you know | B |
| Tyking life the wye h'I find it | E |
| Never arskin' wot's be'ind it | E |
| Though h'it's 'ard h'I do not mind it | E |
| Don't you know | B |
Edgar Albert Guest
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